Engineers Quotes · Page 14

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is…

— John Carroll

My mum was a dinner lady and a cleaner while dad worked night shifts as a hydraulic engineer. They did not have…

— Kate Thornton

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

— K. Eric Drexler

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the…

— Glenn Kurtz

For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're…

— Don Aslett

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

— Brian Eno

I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be…

— Steve Wozniak

Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they…

— Steven Levy

I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I…

— Diana Ross

Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you'll be able to count the…

— Seth Shostak

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

— will.i.am

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

— Bill Moyers

Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's…

— Ross Levinsohn

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job…

— Aldo Leopold

All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in…

— Will Oldham

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They…

— Marissa Mayer

My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps…

— Woody Allen

Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks…

— Janine Benyus

I've never had anybody produce my records. I've always produced my own records. I've worked with a guy for a while who…

— John Mellencamp

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills…

— A. R. Rahman

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's…

— Linus Torvalds

You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives.…

— Lou Gerstner

While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again,…

— Sallust

We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers,…

— Raoul Hausmann